Social Network Management System is a technology that allows businesses to build robust, customized social community around the core of their business. With Social Network Management System (SMS), registered members can create relationships (friendship, colleagues, clients) and interact with each other and generate contents through social media tools.

User Profile Manager

The core of SMS is the User Profile Manager. Every registered member is identified with a user profile containing the user avatar, name and address used for geocoding and payment processing, basic user information (i.e. birthdate, age, sex and etc) and a short biography.

User Relationship Manager 

Relationships form as a result of collaborations and interactions between community members. With SMS, the registered members can manage their relationships (contacts, friends, colleagues and etc) with other members.

Privacy Concerns

The users have absolute control over what they like to share with public, friends and others. With a strong Access Control List (ACL) in place, registered members can limit their profile contents and online activities only to they people they trust.

If a user chooses to block certain users, the user becomes invisible to the blocked users and they won't be able to see/search the user's profile and his online activities.

Social Applications

Social Application (Social Media Tools) are the evolved form of traditional web applications built around community members and their relationships with other members of the community. The social applications act as glue within a community; they facilitate interaction, communication, collaboration, and content creation between the community members.

Good examples of some social media applications are:

• Discussion Forums and Groups
• Private Messaging (PM)
• Discussion Walls
• User Media Galleries ( Audio, Video, Image )
• Blogs
• Content Feeds for independent Personal blogs, and outside media management services such as YouTube or Flickr
• Commenting and Ranking Systems
• Tagging ( or Folksonomy )
• Community Policing Tools

Integration with Existing Social Communities

Regular web users are very reluctant to join new communities because they feel they have to leave the history they've built over time in other communities behind and start a new life by creating a new profile and new avatar, making new relationships and creating contents such articles, photos from scratch all over again. However SMS allows for smooth integration with other social communities which means users can import their avatar, profile, photos and others to the new community.

Do More

The goal of SMS is not to create yet another social network, but to establish a customized, dynamic and organic community around  a sold existing business model. By using different arrangements and configurations of these social media tools, we can help our clients to build the ideal community that fit perfectly with their unique business needs.

Technical Information

We develop online communities using different platforms such as Ruby on Rails, Drupal CMS and Joomla! CMS. Check out our portfolio to see some these communities.